Awards

Jamie Benn Awards

Art Ross Trophy

Season

Team

2014-2015

Dallas Stars

Bio

Jamie Benn Bio

Benn has spent a lot of his hockey career being overlooked.

He was ignored by major junior teams as a 16- and 17-year-old growing up in Victoria, British Columbia, then had to wait until the fifth round (No. 129) before the Dallas Stars called his name during the 2007 NHL Draft. He also was left off the list of invitees to Canada's orientation camp for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Benn has spent a lot of his hockey career being overlooked.

He was ignored by major junior teams as a 16- and 17-year-old growing up in Victoria, British Columbia, then had to wait until the fifth round (No. 129) before the Dallas Stars called his name during the 2007 NHL Draft. He also was left off the list of invitees to Canada's orientation camp for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Canada eventually corrected the oversight, adding Benn just before the start of the Games. Benn went on to score the game's only goal in the semifinal victory against the United States that sent Canada to the gold medal game, where it defeated Sweden 3-0.

Benn has been among the NHL's elite ever since. He was a First-Team All-Star in 2013-14, won the Art Ross Trophy as the League's top scorer (87 points) and was named a Second-Team All-Star in 2014-15, then had NHL career highs of 41 goals and 89 points in 2015-16, when he was a First-Team All-Star for the second time.

He dropped off to 69 points (26 goals, 43 assists) in 2016-17, but rebounded with 79 points (36 goals, 43 assists) in 2017-18.

However, Benn has shown he more than just a goal-scorer and point producer. He led the Stars with 120 hits during the 2014-15 season and 156 in 2015-16, and he was first among Stars forwards in blocked shots with 59 in 2013-14 and second with 55 in 2015-16.

Not bad for a player who had to wait until after he was drafted to make the jump to major junior hockey. Even then, Benn still had to ask for a tryout before catching on with Kelowna in the Western Hockey League for the 2007-08 season.

Benn immediately impressed, scoring 147 points (79 goals, 68 assists) in 107 games in two seasons to earn a promotion straight from junior hockey to the NHL for the start of the 2009-10 season. He finished with 41 points (22 goals, 19 assists) and was seventh in the balloting for the Calder Trophy as the NHL's top rookie.

He scored 22 goals and had 56 points in 2010-11, then bumped those totals to 26 goals and 63 points in 2011-12.

Benn was named the sixth captain in Dallas franchise history prior to the 2013-14 season, and he signed an eight-year contract extension on July 15, 2016.